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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0128 SAA 128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of recordings of worship services and interviews that document Old Regular and Primitive Baptist singing and preaching traditions in Kentucky's Floyd, Knott, Letcher, and Perry counties.The recordings were made primarily in the 1970s and 1980s by Berea College faculty members Loyal Jones and John Wallhauser, other researchers, and church members.
There are 13 reel-to-reel and 23 audio tape cassette recordings along with written recording contents logs....
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1980
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0052 SAA 052
Scope and Contents
Minutes or other official records of several Appalachian church denominations, published in booklet form. Primitive Baptists, Old Regular Baptists, and other Baptist groups are most numerous, followed by Church of God, Lutherans and Methodists. The largest portion of minutes dates from the 1960s to 1980s, but the collection also contains minutes from early and mid-1800s.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1801-1993
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0008 SAA 007
Abstract
Material in the collection was compiled over several years by Hutchins Library staff in response to the historical, cultural, and popular interest that feud activity has engendered, especially in Kentucky.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1977
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0162 SAA 164
Abstract
The interviews in this collection are part of a multi-year oral history effort titled: Gathering the Stories of Appalachian Foodways: an Oral History Project.
The project’s purposes were to: learn about Appalachian foodways; gain insight and understanding in how Appalachian foodways have changed overtime; and, collect stories so that they can be studied in order to preserve the history of Appalachia.
Berea student researchers conducted interviews in 2012,...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2012
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.13
Scope and Contents
Founded in 1973 and based at Berea College, the quarterly publication Appalachian Heritage considers previously unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, writing for young adults, craft essays, book reviews, and visual art. In addition to new and emerging writers, contributors to the magazine include finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award; winners of the T. S. Eliot Award, the E.B. White Award, an O. Henry Prize, among others; and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-
Collection — Container: 6.12.3 Box 2 Oversized
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.3
Abstract
Official records of the Appalachian Heritage Magazine. (Appalachian heritage: a magazine of southern Appalachian life and culture, published by Berea College).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972 -
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0243
Abstract
This collection was developed by students in a PED 398 Directed Study course taught by Susan Spalding during January 2009. The course goal was for students to document HipHop dance, music, spoken word, and other cultural expression in the Appalachian region. Video interviews were recorded with Berea students and others along with an open mic performance event. Students Josh Gampfer, Shekina Huffman, Casey Lambdin, and Marcus Leslie drew upon this material to produce the video documentary...
Dates:
Other: 2009-01
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0286
Scope and Contents
This oral history collection consists of interviews with eighteen elder (over 65) Appalachians about their recollections of the forest in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. While the interviews focus on their experience of the forests, their stories also intersect with other aspects of their experience and contributions such as music and art. Among those interviewed are notable Appalachian folk figures all of whom have now passed, including wood carver and shingle river William McClure;...
Dates:
1996
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0149 SAA 150
Abstract
Collection is comprised of images (c.1890-1930) of families in the Appalachian Mountains surrounding Berea College, including surrounding counties. Photographs of several area photographers including E. W. Todd and E. Simms.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1890-1939
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 05-5.47
Abstract
The Appalachian Museum was created in 1969 (officially open to the public in 1971) to care for the college's growing collections of artifacts from the Appalachian area. It was dedicated to the task of preserving the distinctive crafts and telling the story of the traditional lifestyle of the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
The museum was closed in May of 1998 with most of its activities and collections being integrated into the educational programs of the College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1951-1998
